Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-25


Then whisper softly where the wild flowers grow
About the winters tomb.
Frank Dempster sherman.
"SA RMWELL'S CTIANCE'
ASK Sarmwell, ask Sarmwel said the
host Of the Harbor House, whisking the
flies from his bald head as he sat tilted
against the wall upon his vcranda "lf it's
anything that Sarmwell can't tell you, you
might as well give it up. | believe that
Teller would make King Solomon draw in
his horns, if it amt perfanin Scripter to
say 50. Politics why, he's got the whole
history of the country at his tongues end,
and the show Hackett's Harbor made last
election was owing to him and religion.
When it comes to free grace n lection, he
don't leave the minister a leg to stan on.
N raised right here in these parts, so fur
~ you can call it raisin he done the most
Of it himself, though Lias Moody did take
him in m keep him off'n the town when he
was II little mite of a chap, m did for him
consolidate when he had anything 10 do
with-shif'less. 'Iius was--but, land
'twu'n't long that anybody was called upon
to do for Sarmwell Took care Of himself
ever sence he was as high as that gardin-
eer'-the landlord pointed to a red tub con
tanning wilted geranium, which const-
tuted the houses claim to highly orna-
mented grounds as per advertisement
Fit his way along smarter'n a steel-trap,
lookin into everything N learnin more n
the school master knew fit his way through
college, wOrkin every spare minute-school-
keepin clerkin' it, conductin N drivin
horse cars-actilly carryin "a hod one time.
Studyin law now. Lucky that could get
him to clerk it for me this summer, for
there amt no other one man in Ameriky
that could answer all the questions folks
asks material history dissecters comes
here. N Injn relickers, fishin' folks quiet
folks that wants the crickets muzzled N
hoppin' folks that wants IA band there
amt but one thing common to EN-, m that 5
askin questions Sarmwel he's a match
for EN-.
Dear dear | must see this clerk, Sc
| murmured Mrs. Arlington TO her niece,
| taking out her note book. | am sure hc is
type The natives have hitherto proved
so commonplace and unsatisfactory
The niece, Miss Seraphine Collamore. col
| nred sensitively the clerk was coming out
Of the office Of the hotel with her uncle,
Mr. Sidney Collamore, and must have be
come aware that he was considered "a
| type There was a suspicion of flush on
his bronzed cheeks, but his gray eyes were
clear and steady, and his manner perfectly
self-possessed. Miss Seraphine Collamore
| blushed still more vividly as she met his
| glance-a circumstance which was very an
| moving to herself
Mrs. Arlington surveyed him, notebook
| in hand with as calm curiosity as If he
were n well-preserved specimen of the dOdo.
He was somewhat rustic in appearance
high shouldered, long limbed and loose
iointed, but with regular features and a
fine head although somewhat too large
which Mrs. Arlington afterward spoke OF
as ''leonine
Found out by Sarmwell, didn't you
told you you couldn't catch Sarmwell nap
pin, said the landlord complacently, The
young man looked intensely annoyed. Tn,
young lady turned her head away with sym
pathetic tact
Mrs. Arlington smiled with bland condo
scension upon the clerk Il should like Il
take you with me ON several excursions,
she said II am sure you could assist III,
in my researches. | should be willing Il
pay"
A vigorous nudge of her brothers elbow
stopped her
Dear dear how can one keep alway
in mind the ridiculous sensitiveness of thes
natives = she remarked after they ha,
mounted the blackboard which was in wait
ing for them But | am glad you stoppe,
me, Sidney, for think he may really b.
useful to me
''Ile is remarkable Young man, sal,
her brother, emphatically 1--WE beel
sounding him. He knows more law THAI
many IA man who has practiced twent,
years, and he knows that two and tw
make four. which is unparalleled in "A ma
of his years
IL knew that he was remarkable the me
ment ! saw him / sail So, said Mrs. Arm
ington, who liked to have the credit Il
making discoveries "And his head is 5
fine one wishes he were bronze Now
think of it, Seraph, he would make Il pei
feet model for your head of St Paul Wei
perhaps not quite spiritual enough "a
Seraph shook her head, smiling slightly
5 but certainly quite AS much so as that tia
ian model who disappeared when you ha
lust begun it. You talked about the sent
ment in his face. but could never see it.
'Giuseppi had "A sweetheart who died,
said Seraph. Il doubt whether this man
And then she stopped short, coloring again
1t was absurd to he specializing upon IL
love affairs of the hotel clerk, although OF
might do it in "a purely aesthetic and impe
sonal way. She was ashamed to rememb,
p that she had received IA vague impression
when his ewes met hers that he was po
. | pessed of sentiment. although perhaps
an undeveloped form. And vet why shOu
one he mistaken He was not. she WI
O. sure, vulgarly cute" and pushing va
i kee. as Aunt Fanny seemed to think, I
: had sometimes impressed her as being
. fine gentleman by nature as she had ev
met And how hard time he had haC
: Her imagination pictured the little ragge
= barefooted boy he must have been, Eighth
+ against Fate with only the aid of his ov
n small hands, and the cute brains til
h were lurking under his tawny locks. IT
dangers he had passed were quite until
q Othello's, but Miss Seraph Collamore seel
Il elk likely to view him after Desdemona
fashion.
- She felt vaguely irritated that Aunt Fla
ny and her Uncle Sidney would go on tai
y ing about him, viewing him from their 5
( perior heights.
II ITS wonderful the intellectual force til
b. crops out among the common people on
i in a while" Mr.. Sidney Collamore was sa
ing. His father was a fisherman w
&c could scarcely read. and there was no bett
blood ON the mothers side. He has a tou
IN struggle still before him. the profession
~ overcrowded but he will make his way.
=, feel a strong impulse to help him to chan,
- I'm not sure but should be doing myself
I'll good turn too feel the need of sol
t. fresh brains and energy in my business
in Mr. Sidney Collamore was himself in
r foremost ranks of the legal profession
u NV dear Sidney YOU wouldn't ia
~ him into YOUR own office :" exclaimed NJ
O Arlington. "And vet as an experim,
it would be interesting. One would like
see the effect of civilization upon him, a
Id vet one couldn't quite, under any circu
an strnces receive him socially